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Updated: May 13, 2025
One of the most charming of Yradier's Andalusian songs, addressed by a contrabandista to his novia, runs thus: Pero tengo unas patillas. Que patillas puñála! Es lo mejor que se ha jecho En de Jesu Cristo acá! "But I have such a stunning pair of whiskers! The best that have ever been seen since those of Jesus Christ!" And no one is offended; in fact, no irreverence is probably meant.
You know the song also, the holy Song of Re-arising, that shall be on the lips of Aca when she comes again, and which I, being the daughter of the high-priest, learned, with many another secret, before I was doomed to be a bride to the Snake and fled, fearing my doom.
Give us blood! Lead forth the victims!" In the midst of this uproar Juanna, clad in her white robes and with the red stone bound upon her brow, rose from her seat to speak. "Silence!" cried Nam, "hear the voice of Aca;" and by degrees the shouting died away, and she spoke. "Do ye dare thus to offer outrages to the gods?" she cried. "Be warned lest we bring death and famine upon you all.
To this end the Shepherdess learned our language, also she learned how to play the part of Aca, while the dwarf, dog that he is, dared to take the holy name of Jal. I will be short: they accomplished their journey, and the rest you know.
And ye would do sacrifice to Jal that he may be appeased according to the ancient law, and listen to the pleading of the Mother that fruitfulness may fill the land. Not so shall Jal be appeased, and not because of the sacrifice of men shall Aca plead with him that prosperity may reign in the land. "Behold, the old law is done away, and we give you a new law.
You have seen the white man with her not the Deliverer, the other. Were that man dressed in the robes of Aca, and sat on high upon the head of the statue when the light is low, who should say that he was not Aca?" "Then you would give all the others to death, daughter?" "Nay, I would save the Deliverer alive, for a while at least." "And wherefore? You are too subtle for me."
The multitude heard and prostrated themselves like a single man, every one of them crying in a shout of thunder: "Aca, the Queen of life, has come; Jal, the doom-god, has put on flesh. Worship the Mother, do honour to the god!" It was as though the army had suddenly been smitten with death, and of the hundreds there, Juanna and Otter alone were left standing.
I would have killed you all had time been granted to me, but in that I failed, and I am glad that I have failed, for now I will deal you a bitterer blow than any death. May the curse of Jal and Aca cleave to you, you dogs without a kennel! May you live outcasts and die in the dirt, and may your fathers and your mothers and your children spit upon your bones as I do! Farewell!"
And in a shout that rent the skies the great audience echoed: "Glory be to you, O Aca, and to you, O Jal, immortal kings for evermore!" Then Nam spoke again, saying: "Bring forth the virgin, that fair maid who is destined to the Snake, that he may look upon her and accept her as his wife.
Afterwards, before she dies, they take the gem from her brow and store it in a secret place, and there in that secret place are hidden all those that have been worn by the victims of countless years. Moreover the eyes of Jal are made of such stones, and there are others. "This is the legend of my people, White Man, that Jal, God of Death and Evil, slew his mother, Aca, in the far past.
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